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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
Standing alone? Reina Whaitiri
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes Random House, $39.95, ISBN 186941425X Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth Robyn Kahukiwa & Patricia Grace Penguin, $31.00, ISBN 0670839418 Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes features 58 men and women from a range of professions and…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, December 2000, Issue 46, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Random House, Robyn Kahukiwa
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
A dentist’s view of heaven No drill, no syringes, no mouth washes no cotton padding like tiny bolsters no excavating a tooth like a collapsed house in which at the bottom remains like a family safe in a doodlebug…
A hard-won magic, Elizabeth Crayford
Markings Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877133922 Not long after Cilla McQueen moved to her new address on Liffey St, Bluff, she booked a place on a tour of the Tiwai aluminium smelter, the chimney of which…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, December 2000, Elizabeth Crayford, Issue 46, Otago University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – David Eggleton
Late-Model Import-Export Cultural Recycling Poem The golden cherubim of twenty-two turn into promises of middle age, locked inside a gilded cage. Jumping Jack Weta is growing rhubarb in the suburbs; Academies of Yahoos offer Diplomas in Primal Urges. Maybe…
Blue-stockinged heroines, Rosemary McLeod
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Helen Smyth Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228168 Women will recognise the subtext of Helen Smyth’s history as a record of their own families; not the families posing stiffly in…
Tagged with: December 2000, Helen Smyth, Issue 46, Rosemary McLeod, Steele Roberts
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
On the beat, Neil Cameron
A Policeman’s Paradise? Policing a Stable Society, 1918-1945 Graeme Dunstall Dunmore Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $49.95, ISBN 0864693567 This (large) volume is the fourth in the “official” history of the New Zealand…
Tagged with: December 2000, Department of Internal Affairs, Dunmore Press, Graeme Dunstall, Issue 46, Neil Cameron
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The facts of lives, Bryan Gilling
Set in a Long Place: A Life from North to South Maurice Andrew Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161586 Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Shirley Ferguson Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561806 Bridging the Centuries Valerie Cowan Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN 0908561784…
Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, Cape Catley, December 2000, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Maurice Andrew, Shirley Ferguson, Valerie Cowan
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review